List of facts about the sun
- The Sun is all the colors mixed together, this appears white to our eyes.
- The Sun is composed of hydrogen (70%) and Helium (28%).
- The Sun is a main-sequence G2V star (or Yellow Dwarf).
- The Sun is 109 times wider than the Earth and 330,000 times as massive.
- The Sun’s surface area is 11,990 times that of the Earth’s.
- The distance between the Earth and the Sun is an Astronomical Unit (AU)
- One million Earths could fit inside the Sun.
- The Sun contains 99.86% of the mass in the Solar System.
- The Sun is an almost perfect sphere.
- The Sun will consume the Earth.
- The Sun will one day be about the size of Earth.
- The temperature inside the Sun can reach 15 million degrees Celsius.
- Light from the Sun takes eight minutes to reach Earth.
- The Sun travels at 220 kilometers per second.
- The distance from the Sun to Earth changes throughout the year.
- The Sun is middle-aged.
- The Sun has a very strong magnetic field.
- The Sun generates solar wind.
- Sol is the Latin for Sun